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Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, HMML Project ID EMML, Manuscript No. 2270

This Geʿez language manuscript was created between 1850 and 1949. This date is estimated, based on paleography, a study of the manuscript's letter shapes, by Jeremy Brown and Stephen Delamarter.

This manuscript's last known location (i.e., where it was microfilmed or digitized at some point in the past forty years) is the repository of Yegem Abbo in Ankobar, Shoa Province, Ethiopia.

To view the manuscript, go to the digital copy.

This manuscript has a typical number of Marian miracle stories: 39.

This manuscript has no paintings of Marian miracle stories.

This manuscript has a total of 63 folios and 72 scans. It has 2 columns per page and approximately 19–20 lines per column.

The stories in this manuscript were cataloged by Jeremy R. Brown.

The PEMM abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML (HMML) 2270.

The Beta Maṣāḥǝft abbreviation for this manuscript is EMML2270. Other shelfmarks and/or abbreviations for this manuscript include EMML 2270.

Regarding this manuscript's repository:

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) was a microfilming project carried out in Ethiopia in the 1970s-1990s. The project photographed 9,238 manuscripts prior to its conclusion in 1994. The collection has over five hundred Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts. This project revolutionized Ethiopian Studies through the thousands of manuscripts made available for research and the ten volumes of catalogs prepared by William F. Macomber and Getatchew Haile. There is no institution that holds a complete set of the EMML microfilms, although the majority of the microfilms are available at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). HMML has the largest collection of electronic and microfilmed Ethiopian/Eritrean manuscripts in the world. There is an ongoing digitization effort at HMML to make the entirety of the EMML collection available online in their Reading Room. View more information about collections at HMML, including EMML.

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EMML (HMML) 2270

Order in MS
Story Title
Location in MS
Paintings
Story Recension
Incipit
Other Aspects
Story ID
1Bishop Hildephonsus of Toledo who collected stories and compiled them into the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Maryf. 6v-8r, col. 1 0---13
2Dabra Metmaq's Prior Yeshaq flees to Scete, Egypt, to escape the burden of his officef. 8r-9r, col. 1 1---37
3Dabra Metmaq's monks are helped to celebrate Passion Week when Bishop Michael sends Deacon John to help themf. 9r-10v, col. 2 0---52
4Dabra Metmaq's water cistern is filled miraculouslyf. 10v-11v, col. 1 0---53
5Thieves at the Spring: Part 1: The daughter of the chief of the thieves is cured of her leprosy at the miraculous spring.f. 11v-13r, col. 2 0---100
6Thieves at the Spring: Part 2: The Virgin Mary saves the soul of a thief who was slain by the miraculous springf. 13r-13v, col. 2 0---101
7Thieves at the Spring: Part 3: The thieves who killed each other at the miraculous spring, one who was the Cannibal of Qemer and the thief who repented on the crossf. 13v-15r, col. 2 0---114
8Saint Basil and the proud men who wanted to have a splendid icon of the Virgin Mary made and ask him to make itf. 15r-17r, col. 2 0---98
9A bee keeper who consulted a sorceress to have his bees produce more honey and waxf. 17r-17v, col. 2 0---160
10An official who kidnapped a girl who had made a vow of virginity is visited by the Virgin Maryf. 17v-18v, col. 2 0---309
11A young man who used to crown the icon of the Virgin Mary with rosesf. 18v-19r, col. 1 0EMML (HMML) 7089--153
12The sinful deacon whom his enemies could not kill until he had confessed himself to a priest.f. 19r-19v, col. 1 0EMML (HMML) 7089--140
13A Christian's lamp was blown out by the wind during the feast of Mary at the Meneta Diyaqonat and his Muslim servant is protected from the stormf. 19v-21r, col. 1 0---28
14The rich man who angrily threw a loaf of dry bread at a beggar, cutting him, but was saved from hell by the Virgin Maryf. 21r-22v, col. 2 0---106
15The poor, pious firewood collector to whom the town's gatekeeper betrothed his daughterf. 22v-24r, col. 1 0---184
16A bishop who was commanded by the Virgin Mary in a dream to bury an executed robber in consecrated groundf. 24r-25v, col. 1 0---186
17The priest who could only memorize one mass, the Anaphora of the Virgin Mary, and was prevented from performing mass by the bishopf. 25v-27r, col. 2 0---145
18The Jew who stabbed the icon of the Virgin Mary when he failed to obtain someone else's property through a lawsuitf. 27r-28r, col. 2 0---202
19The nun who the Virgin Mary encouraged to recite the Hail Mary more slowly because the Virgin Mary enjoyed itf. 28r-29r, col. 2 0---206
20Saint John Chrysostom defends a woman condemned by archbishop (Nestorius) for taking communion during her monthly cycle.f. 29r-30v, col. 1 0---263
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